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TRUCKINGS' WORLD NEWS
* Goodyear announces Highway Hero finalists
USA -Fleet Owner -Feb 22, 2006: Goodyear North America has announced the four finalists for its North America Highway Hero Award, which recognizes truck drivers who perform acts of heroism while on the job.... And the finalists are: ** Michael Knott of Casselberry, FL, a driver for FedEx Ground... ** Douglas Crawford of Ashford, AL, a driver for Saia Motor Freight... ** Danny R. Wallen of Conover, OH, a driver for ABF Freight Systems Inc.... ** Robert A. Starr, of North Troy, VT, a driver and owner of Starr’s Transportation...
* CNF contemplates name change
USA -Fleet Owner -Feb 22, 2006: San Mateo, CA-based transportation conglomerate CNF Inc. is proposing to shareholders a name change to Con-Way Inc. and to adopt CNW as the new ticker symbol for the company’s publicly traded stock...
* Hino plant might take root in Canada
USA -AFX News -Feb 21, 2006: Hino Motors Ltd. is considering a plant to assemble trucks in Canada, which would make it the first Japanese company to build trucks in that country, according to an report... Currently Hino is rolling out trucks to the North American market from parent company Toyota Motor Corp.’s plant in Long Beach, CA...
* China and Iran signed biggest ever auto export contract
China -People's Daily News -Feb 23, 2006: China National Heavy Duty Truck Group Co., Ltd (CNHTC) singed a $350 million auto exports deal with Iran Khodro Industrial Group on February 21. This is so far the largest export deal inked by a Chinese auto company... In accordance with the contract, CNHTC will export 10,000 Sinotruck-H7 heavy duty trucks to the Iranian car manufacturer this year and will increase the exports by 5% to 20% in the coming 10 years...
* CBP Port Inspection and Surveillance Technologies
USA -Fibre2 Fashion -Feb 22, 2006: US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) uses intelligence and a risk-based strategy to review information on 100 percent of all cargo information entering US ports. All cargo that presents a risk to our country is physically inspected using large x-ray and radiation detection equipment...
* CEO, founder sells trucking firm Comtrak Logistics for $48 million
Memphis, Tenn,USA -The Commercial Appeal, by Jane Roberts -Feb. 22, 2006: Mike Bruns, chief executive officer and founder of Comtrak Logistics, has sold the trucking company he started in 1983 for $48 million to Hub Group Inc., the largest intermodal marketing firm in the nation...
* Bird flu causes heavy loss to truck owners
New Delhi,India -Chennai On Line -Feb 22, 2006: Truckers have been hit by the bird flu scare in various parts of the country with the restriction on movement of chicken causing losses of around Rs 150-200 crore over the last five days, according to a study of Indian Foundation of Transport Research and Training (IFTRT)... The foundation, which carried out a survey over the last five days to examine the impact of bird flu on operations of truck business dedicated to poultry/hatchery trade, said currently there were 70,000 light and heavy trucks engaged in moving the poultry products all over the country... It said as many as 20,000 light trucks with load capacity ranging 7.5-10 tonnes gross load capacity are engaged in ferrying chicken in specially designed cargo body, with cages mounted on them to provide ventilation to the birds. On the other hand, 16.2 tonnes capacity heavy trucks are engaged in moving eggs in crates on closed body structure...
* New Orleans' raison d'être
USA -Strategic Forecasting, by George Friedman -23 Feb 2006: New Orleans is battered and submerged today. But it will rise again because it is — and always has been — the single most important cog in the nation's economy. Today, the Port of South Louisiana is the largest port in the United States by tonnage, and the fifth-largest port in the world. A large percentage of the bulk farm commodities of the upper Midwest are still loaded on barges and shipped down the Mississippi to be offloaded onto cargo ships near New Orleans. Massive cargo shipments come to the United States through the port as well. Steel, cement, rubber — the nuts and bolts of American industrialism — all flow upriver... The alternative shipping routes for these goods aren't a good substitute. There aren't enough trucks or railroad cars to haul these materials long distance, and other U.S. ports don't have the capacity to make up for New Orleans, even if they had the rivers. Only river transport is cheap enough to be economically viable, and only river transport can handle the tonnage involved...
* Bush, Snow Didn't Learn of Port Deal Before Approval
USA -Bloomberg -Feb. 22, 2006: President George W. Bush didn't know of the sale of six major U.S. port facilities to a Dubai company until after the deal was agreed to and federal approval was granted, his spokesman said. Treasury Secretary John Snow said he learned of it ``by reading it in the newspapers.'' ... Bush was made aware of the $6.8 billion sale of London- based Peninsular & Oriental Steam Navigation Co. to DP World, a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates, in ``the last several days,'' White House spokesman Scott McClellan said. By that time, congressional opposition already was bubbling up...
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